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Winelib Hobbled by Exception-Handling Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cheese-with-your-wine dept.

davidwr writes "UKBuilder.com reports that Borland's structured exception handling (SEH) patent affects Winelib. Winelib allows you to compile Windows-targeted code to run natively on Linux. Because of the patent, gcc does not include support for SEH, which is widely used in the MS-Windows world. There are workarounds, but you won't like them."

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  1. Re:Donation please... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Troll

    wow u noticed

  2. Thank you, United States of America... by vhogemann · · Score: 1, Troll


    Now, a feature that would benefect me is disabled by default... and that's just because of you, since most coutries doesn't allow software patents.

    Well... looking at the bright side this may give a reason for some devellopers out there to switch to a more platform independent codebase. Like QT for example.

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